Abubakar Sharif Ahmed

Abubakar Sharif Ahmed (died 3 April 2014), also known as Makaburi, was a radical Sunni cleric from Kenya who was accused of supporting al-Shabaab and radicalizing Mombasa's youth.

Biography
Abubakar Sharif Ahmed was born to a family of Sunni Muslim Kenyans, and he grew up in Mombasa, Kenya. He became an Islamic cleric when he grew older, and he had radical views about Islamism and jihad. Ahmed was the cleric at the Muslim Youth Center, which was known for its support of al-Shabaab and its radicalization of Kenyan Muslim youth. In 2013, he made a controversial remark when he said that the Westgate Mall attack was justified, although all of the victims of the attack were civilians and were targeted because they were Christians. Ahmed knew that people wanted to kill him (and he believed that the government would try to kill him), but he said that he would let them kill him so that he could die for his faith.

His prophesy turned out to be true when he was gunned down on a sidewalk of Mombasa on the night of 3 April 2014. His murder was unsolved, but it was one of many shootings in Mombasa conneced to jihadism in Kenya. VICE News had the opportunity to interview him before his death, getting insight on his Islamist views.